As you play Payday 3, you’ll level up your infamy and gain skill points, but how many skill points can you get before you max out? Continue reading to discover that and how to level up and unequip your skills in Payday 3.
What is the Max Number of Skill Points You Can Have in Payday 3?
You can geta maximum of 21 skill pointsin Payday 3. As you level up your infamy, you’ll gain skill points every few levels until you reach the point limit. Note that you won’t gain a skill point every single time you level up. Since there are more skills than points to allocate, you cannot max out every tree, even if you are max level.
However, you can freely move skill points around.Refund skill points by unequipping skillsand then reallocate the refunded skill point to a different skill. This will allow you to freely mess around with varying builds and find the skills that work best for you.
The max level in Payday 3 is Infamy Level 150. Butyou’ll gain your last skill point by level 100. You’ll likely have unlocked all weapons and upgrades by then as well. This makes the last 50 Infamy Levels in Payday 3 kind of useless, and more for bragging rights than anything else.
How to Level Up in Payday 3
Leveling up in Payday 3 meanscompleting challenges to increase your infamy. These challenges range from completing heists on normal or higher difficulties to defeating enemies with specific weapons. As you play Payday 3, you’ll naturally finish many of these challenges without checking the menu.
Alongside gaining additional skill points, reaching certain Infamy levels also unlocks new weapon and armor options for you to purchase. You’ll also gain C-Stacks, which you can use to buy special guns and charms.
Pay Day 3 Challenges
Payday 3 has well over a thousand challenges for you to complete that will raise your infamy and net you more skill points. Complete these challenges by playing through heists in certain ways or on different difficulties. Here aresome of the types of challenges you’ll come acrossin Payday 3:
These are just a few of the more general challenges you may complete. Each heist and varying weapons have their own specific challenges as well. Take a look at the game’s home screen for a list of all the challenges you can complete.
How to Unequip Skills in Payday 3
If you ever want to tweak your skills or try out a new build, you can unequip skills by selecting an upgrade andpressing T on your keyboardorholding T to reset every equipped skill. You can do this as many times as you’d like, free of charge.
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Madison Benson
Madison was a staff writer at Prima Games who has played video games for over twenty years and written about them for over two years. Her love for video games started with turn-based strategy games like Heroes of Might and Magic and has since extended to casual farming sims, MMORPGs, and action-adventure RPGs.
